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Title: Marion D. Connolly
Dates: 1880-1920
Collection Number: 00089
Quantity: 165 items
Abstract: Photographs of the Connolly family from the Hensler (ND) area.
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota acquired the collection from Marion D. Connolly on behalf of Josephine Connolly on November 16, 1977.
Property Rights: The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to this collection.
Copyrights: Copyrights to materials in this collection remain with the donor, publisher, author, or author's heirs. Researcher should consult the 1976 Copyright Act, Public Law 94‑553, Title 17 U.S. Code and an archivist at this repository if clarification of copyright requirements is needed.
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20712 M. J. Connolly, 1939, Radio script focusing on 50 years of North Dakota statehood entitled, “Historical Sketch of North Dakota.” (1 item)
Biographical Sketch
Daniel and Ann Connolly
Daniel Connolly was born in Dundee, New York in 1844. He came with his family to a farm near the town of Henderson, Minnesota. In 1863, he enlisted in Company E Hatch’s Battalion, and was discharged on May 1, 1866. For a time, he worked as a driver of supplies to Fort Gary.
Ann Corcoran was born in Pennsylvania, September 7, 1852, and came to Jesseland, Minnesota, with her parents at the age of 2.
Daniel Connolly and Ann Corcoran were married on January 10, 1874. They came to an eighty-acre farm near Hensler in 1882 or 1883.
Their children were: Mary, Anna D. Sabina, Josephine, Nellie, Genevieve, and Daniel, Jr.
Source: Oliver County, 1885-1985
Daniel Connolly, Jr.
Daniel Dien Donne Connolly born July 31, 1890 at Hensler, died September 27, 1947, at Bismarck. He was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Connolly, Hensler. He attended school at Assumption Abbey at Richardton, Sacred Heart Academy in Fargo, and Dakota Business College in Fargo. He has been farming in the Hensler vicinity since 1917.
He leaves six sisters: Mrs. J. M. Greenshields, Mrs. D. A. Smith, Mrs. A. S. Denison, Miss Nellie Connolly, Miss Genevieve Connolly, and one brother, Jose Connolly, all of Hensler. A brother Vincent passed away in childhood.
Source: Bismarck Tribune obituary
Louis Connolly
Louis Connolly was born in Dundee, New York in 1846. With his family, he moved first to Pennsylvania and finally to Henderson, Minnesota. In 1865, he came to North Dakota in the employ of Colonel Carnahan, Commander of the Third Illinois Cavalry. He hauled supplies from Fort Stevenson to Fort Totten which has just been located. From 1867 to 1879, he worked as a surveyor for the railroad. In 1879, he filed on a claim three and one-half miles from Bismarck on Apple Creek. In 1881, he sold this preemption claim for $10.00 an acre and moved to a location forty miles north of Mandan in Mercer County. In 1884, that area became Oliver County. He became one of the first county commissioners; established a mail route and located the first post office at Hensler. He named the town for his wife, Mary Hensler, whom he married in 1879. Their children were Louis, Jr., Cecelia and Florence. Cecelia, age 93, lives in Santa Monica, California. In 1900, Mr. Connolly sold his 1200 acres of land, his cattle and horses to B. D. Scofield of Fargo and George F. Scofield of St. Johns, Michigan. He moved to Mandan where he served for a term as mayor. He died in 1911 and Mrs. Connolly died in 1918.
Source: Oliver County, 1885-1985
PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY
00089-0001 Daniel Connolly
00089-0002 William Connolly, Dunn Center (ND) 1898
00089-0003 Dan Connolly homestead 1880
00089-0004 Daniel Connolly
00089-0005 Daniel Connolly
00089-0006 Daniel Connolly
00089-0007 Daniel Connolly
00089-0008 Daniel Connolly
00089-0009 Mary, Louis, and Daniel Connolly 1887
00089-0010 Louis Connolly; now Cullens Farm near Hensler (ND)
00089-0011 Louis Connolly; now Cullens Farm near Hensler (ND)
00089-0012 Anna Connolly
00089-0013 Anna Connolly
00089-0014 Anna Connolly
00089-0015 Marion & Mother Anna Connolly, Killdeer Mountains (ND)
00089-0016 Nelly, Mary John William, Sabina, Anna, Genevieve, Nelly, Ann (Mother), and Josephine Connolly
00089-0017 Josephine Connolly
00089-0018 Nellie Connolly
00089-0019 Automobile garage belonging to Mike Connolly, Mandan (ND) 1920
00089-0020 Al Denison 1912
00089-0021 Al Denison 1912
00089-0022 Threshing on Al Denison farm, Hensler (ND)
00089-0023 Threshing on Al Denison farm, Hensler (ND)
00089-0024 Portrait of Henry, Ann Denison, Elmira, Eddie, Alice, and Edna Kraft, Enderlin (ND) 1912/06/28
00089-0025 Anna, Sabrena, and Mary Greenshield 1902
00089-0026 Anna Greenshield and Katie Wagner
00089-0027 Albert and Bina Dennison House, Hensler (ND)
00089-0028 Edward Heinemeyer, the oldest resident in Mercer County (ND)
00089-0029 Anna (Connolly) Smith
00089-0030 House moving in the early days
00089-0031 Log cabin with deer hanging from the roof
00089-0032 Four men in front of log cabin
00089-0033 Military Parade New Salem (ND) post card 1909
00089-0034 Men driving a string of horses in front of a barn with the sign: Livery and Feed Stable post card
00089-0035 Cars and tractors in front of barn ca. 1910
00089-0036 View of prairie and hills
00089-0037 Ice crossing Missouri River?
00089-0038 Cattle grazing
00089-0039 Cattle at water hole
00089-0040 Portrait of a man and woman
00089-0041 Portrait of a woman
00089-0042 Portrait of three boys
00089-0043 Portrait of a man
00089-0044 Portrait of a man and woman
00089-0045 Portrait of a man and woman
00089-0046 Portrait of a man and woman
00089-0047 Man holding horse by the bridle. Photographer: S. Sprecher, Hebron, N. Dak.
00089-0048 Dan Connolly
00089-0049 Bena
00089-0050 Portrait of a man. Photographer: Currier & Parkinson, Jamestown, N. Dak.
00089-0051 Portrait of a woman. Photographer: Gilbert, Mandan, N.D.
00089-0052 Portrait of two women. Photographer: Gilbert, Mandan, N.D.
00089-0053 Portrait of a man and woman. Photographer: Gilbert, Mandan, N.D.
00089-0055 Portrait of a man and woman. Photographer: Gilbert, Mandan, N.D.
00089-0056 Baby Portrait, Bismarck (ND) 1890. Photographer: DeGraff, Bismarck, N. Dak.
00089-0057 Portrait of two women. Photographer: C. L. Judd, Jamestown, N.D.
00089-0058 Portrait of a man. Photographer: Welch, Mandan, North Dakota
00089-0059 Portrait of a man, woman, and boy. Photographer J. W. Gilbert, Mandan, N.D.
00089-0060 Portrait of a man and woman. Photographer: C. O. Erickson, St. Paul
00089-0061 Portrait of William W. and Ann (Connolly) Smith, Bismarck (ND) 1904/01/00. Butler Studio, Bismarck
00089-0062 Portrait of William W. and Anna (Connolly) Smith, Bismarck (ND) 1904/01/00. Butler Studio, Bismarck
00089-0063 Ann Connolly Smith
00089-0064 Portrait of a woman. Photographer: Resthus, Dickinson, N.D.
00089-0065 – 0070 Unidentified portraits taken in Arlington, Minnesota
00089-0071 – 0087 Unidentified portraits taken outside North Dakota
00089-0088 – 0107 Unidentified portraits
00089-0108 Connolly sisters: Ann, Mary, Sabina, Josephine
00089-0109 Genevieve Connolly
00089-0110 Mary Connolly,
00089-0111 Nellie Connolly
00089-0112 Nellie Connolly
00089-0113 Connolly, Nellie
00089-0114 Sabina and Josephine Connolly
00089-0115 Mary and Genevieve Connolly
00089-0116 Mary and Genevieve Connolly
00089-0117 Dan Connolly
00089-0118 Young girl playing guitar
00089-0119 Boy and three girls in gorse drawn carriage August 1914
00089-0120 Funeral card of Mrs. Ann Connolly born Sept. 7, 1852, died Nov. 30, 1911
00089-0121 – 0165 Greeting cards and post cards
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